5.4 Installer + Promise FT100TX2 = Loader crash

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Saturday 25 June 2005 21:26, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> Hmm I see.. I know it works OK with 4.<mumble> as I have installed plenty
> of systems like that. I will try some earlier 5.x releases (say, boot only
> ISOs) and see how it goes.

- 5.1   works.
- 5.2   insta-reboot.
- 5.2.1 BTX halted
- 5.3   insta-reboot.
- 5.4   insta-reboot.

5.4 also spins in a loop forever printing register dumps, not sure if 5.2-5.3 
do it as well.



The 5.2.1 BTX error says..
Building the boot loader arguments
Looking up /BOOT/LOADER... Found
Relocating the loader and the BTX
Starting the BTX loader

BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.1
Console: internal video/keyboard
BIOS CD is cd0
BIOS driver A: is disk0
BIOS 628kB/523200kB available memory

FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loadaer, Revision 1.1
(root at wv1u.btc.adaptec.com, Mon Feb 23 18:35:51 GMT 2004)
|
int=0000000d  err=00000000  efl=00030282  eip=0000fffe
eax=000042ad  ebx=00000000  ecx=00000001  edx=0000009f
esi=00000008  edi=0000000c  ebp=00000000  esp=00000404
cs=0000  ds=45e5  es=4bc8    fs=0000  gs=0000  ss=9b57
cs:eip=bb 00 00 00 00 c7 45 d8-00 00 00 00 8b 55 d4 66
       83 7a 2c 00 74 27 0f b7-52 2c 90 8d b4 26 00 00
ss:eip=90 a4 00 f0 46 02 4a 91-00 00 46 00 00 00 00 00
       9f 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
BTX halted

> > That fact that it *sometimes* works is interesting - I am curious to see
> > if you can reproduce this (say try 10 - 15 times).
>
> OK, well I'll try it a few times and see :)

I tried this quite a number of times but haven't seen it succeed yet.

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